TV news highlights

Public Policy professor, Robert Reich, discusses how tax cuts and spending can reduce stock values; Prof. Jennifer Doudna talks about the future of gene editing; Prof. Matt Walker discusses the link between sleep deprivation and major diseases; Cristina Robins describes how rising sea levels allow us to learn more about the past; Researchers at Adesnik Lab are create laser 3D holograms; Architecture professor, Ronald Rael, shows off a 3D printed home, which could help ease the housing crisis; Meet first-generation college graduates and twins, Tyler and Cameron Haberman.

UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center is training students to become digital investigators; PHD student Duncan Haldane demonstrates SALTO, the leaping robot; Professor Jennifer Doudna discusses the impact of her revolutionary discovery that accelerated gene-editing; Solomon Hsiang describes the inequality of the effects of climate change; NASA and Cal teamed up to run a crowd-sourcing project to search the universe for new planets.

Psychology professor, Dacher Keltner, discusses his book on how people gain power, then lose influence; Food insecurity on campuses and how Berkeley is trying to alleviate it; Professor Jennifer Doudna describes the far-reaching implications of her gene-editing technology; Civil & Environmental Engineering professor, Arpad Horvath, on the future of sustainable transportation; Alums, Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez, talk about their “Back to the Roots” food line, born at Berkeley; and more.

Professor Jennifer Doudna discusses her findings on the gene-editing CRISPR technology; How late bedtimes could lead to weight gain, explained by Graduate Student Lauren Asarnow; Berkeley provides Degree Completion Program for former student athletes; ABC 7 news reports on Berkeley students’ volunteer work to rebuild the region affected by Hurricane Katrina, and more.

New athletic classes for the disabled and abled bodied; A study on sleep and memory retention; Jack Gallant’s mind reading device, Genetically modifying Sorghum to battle world hunger; A Chinese documentary on student life at Berkeley, Hazardous flame retardants, an African School built by Haas Alumni, and more.

Berkeley goes to the Olympics; CNN talks to student veterans from the Iraq war; PBS Newshour on Berkeley’s breakthrough science on human vision; local coverage of campus research and events, including Memorial Stadium’s reopening and the announced retirement of Chancellor Birgeneau, and more.

Worldwide coverage of UC Berkeley professor Saul Perlmutter’s Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery that the universe is expanding; The Science Channel highlights Berkeley’s groundbreaking work on artificial materials that can bend light in unconventional ways; local TV covers UC Berkeley’s new financial aid plan for middle class families, and more.

National news coverage of UC Berkeley’s “Austin Exoskeleton” research and graduating senior Austin Whitney using the device at Commencement; local stations turn to Berkeley’s nuclear experts for information on Japan’s nuclear crisis; Prof. Michael Manga on the History Channel’s “Journey to the Earth’s Core”; PBS’ NOVA highlights the energy work of Prof. Dan Kammen and Energy Sec (and UCB prof) Steve Chu, and more.

Professor Matt Walker tells 60 Minutes about new discoveries in the “Science of Sleep”; UC Berkeley courses webcast to the world; student veterans welcomed at Berkeley; researchers send satellites to look for the cause of auroras; Berkeley professors study the changing status of plants and animals in our ecosystems, and more.